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Musco Family Olive Company - 2 - 12 Decembec_2006 R operating at this location since approximately 1980. The processing facility is approximately nine miles west of Tracy in San Joaquin County. The site is occupied by an olive processing facility and packaging plant, a 1-million gallon pond', a 84-million gallon reservoir, two Class II surface impoundments, and land application areas throughout the majority of the site. In 1999, the Discharger acquired an olive packing facility in Visalia, closed that facility, and transferred the production to Tracy, without making improvements to its existing wastewater treatment or disposal system. That consolidation has lead to an increase in wastewater flow rates. The facility processes and cans olives on a year-round basis and generates wastewater with high concentrations of dissolved solids, sodium, and chloride as shown in Table 1 below. The site is entirely within an alluvial fan ancestral depositional environment at the foothills of the Diablo Range. The elevation range of the site is from about 240 feet on the northeast edge of the site to approximately 540 feet on the southwest corner of the site. The site is believed to lie on top of the mid-fan and distal fan environments of the alluvial fan environment. Low moderately steep foothills characterize the southwest (uplands area) portion of the site, where the drainages are deeply incised and have steep canyon walls. Towards the northeast (lowlands area) portion of the site, the land becomes gently sloping to flat where the base of the Coast Ranges and the San Joaquin Valley Basin meet. Areas of concern described below are characterized as upland, mid-slope, and lowland areas. Land Application System Wastewater is collected throughout the facility by floor drains and is piped to a central collection area from which it is either directed to the Title 27 ponds or is pumped to the 1-million,,gallon settling pond or 84-million gallon Reservoir (Reservoir) for eventual discharge to the land application areas. The quality of the individual wastewater streams entering and mixed in the .1-million gallon pond is summarized below. The wastewater streams were described in the Report of Waste Discharge submitted by Musco. Review of the data presented in the Table 1 below reveals that high strength wastewater is discharged through the land application system. The facility consists of 280 acres, of which approximately 200 acres are available as wastewater land application areas.